Is this possible?
I was told this 'story'!! by a friend of mine and wondered whether it was just that, ie, a 'story' or whether it could have been true.
A commercial airliner inbound to a major uk airport on a domestic flight within the last couple of weeks. The visibility is poor and the captain addressess the passengers to let them know they may not get to their destination due to fog, and also that the nearby alternates are also fog bound so they may have to return to their point of departure. Now this is the point I find hard to believe. The Captain states the first officer is not qualified to land the aircraft in poor viz and it requires both pilots to hold the necessary qualification?? A passenger who is a CPL with the necessary tick on his licence offers his services and sits in the right hand seat for the landing taking over from the first officer. (Don't know if he worked for the same airline or not).Seems like a load of bo--ocks to me, but would it be possible?